Blake Griffin Went After Timberwolves Fan For Calling Him "Boy"

Blake wasn’t having it.

The athletes within the NBA are drained hecklers taking their trash speaking too far. We have seen the fallout from the Russell Westbrook scenario the place a fan pushed him to the purpose confrontation. That fan was banned for making racist feedback, however racial taunts aren’t going away anytime quickly. The Detroit Piston’s massive man Blake Griffin discovered himself on the receiving finish a racial taunt again in December, which led to a viral second. On the time, all the data we had was primarily based on the footage Blake being restrained whereas a fan was faraway from a sport. Now, it has been revealed racial remark is what despatched Blake right into a frenzy.

In line with Pistons reporter Vince Ellis, the interplay started when the heckler referred to as Blake “boy.” “Being referred to as “boy” is what triggered Blake Griffin’s confrontation with a Timberwolves fan earlier this season,” wrote Ellis on Twitter. His tweet was initially a repost an article that highlights the Utah Jazz group banning the heckler who made racial feedback in the direction of Westbrook. “A younger man and his spouse within the stands informed me ‘to get down on my knees such as you used to,'” defined Westbrook the now viral confrontation. “To me, that’s simply utterly disrespectful, to me, I believe it’s racial, and I believe it’s inappropriate.”